Only someone who spent his life isolated in a cave and was born into our world yesterday would believe a Russian. Russia isn't in Syria to destroy ISIS, it's there to save Assad. Russia has fallen into the trap. Now it will be sucked in by a machine that will chew it up. IS is on the move and headed towards a village or city near you Rusky. Herr Putin, your Fuhrer can't save you. How would he deal with a President Hillary Clinton who compared him to Adolf Hitler? Hey Rooskies, notice anything? The Ruble is down to around 73 to the US dollar. It was at 79 on December 18, 2014 when the Russian Central Bank hit the panic button pushing up interest rates 7% in one day and there was a run of Russian banks to turn Rubles into mostly US dollars. 2016 looks to be even worse for Russia than 2015. Put that in your little red book of Vlad's sayings. Russia doesn't know what the bottom is by a long shot yet. It's back to the USSR and long lines to buy the scraps on empty shelves.

I entirely agree with you. The US media won't put the pressure where it belongs because it would make clear that the entire war in Syria was incited, planned and rehearsed in advance since 2006 by the US. Read Seymour Hersh's article in London Review of Books on the inner mechanics of the Syrian war and the lame US effort to oust ISIS. Very illuminating.

I think amnesty confused about countries. Turkish state have been murdering it's own citizens since July. Almost 150 civilians died by the Islamist suicide bombers whose allowed by the Turkish security forces. 150 civilians - including children and even 5 moths baby - killed by turkish army and the police. That's because they are anti-islamist, leftist and pro-Kurdish. Why western media and amnesty plays three monkeys?

How can Amnesty have any credibility when it lies about its own funding sources? "We do not accept any money from governments or political parties, so we are free to criticise governments and others for abusing people’s rights...." Yet Amnesty has received very large sums of money from the governments of UK, Netherlands, United States and the European Commission. For example: Amnesty International received £842,000 in 2011 from the UK Department for International Development as part of a four-year award commencing in 2008 and totaling £3,149,000.

Only a fool can believe that Russia targeted innocent civilians because Russian's purpose and goal is quite clear: Hunting and killing the terrorists of different kinds. So far there is not a single evidence that Russia killed civilians. What about the sourse of information the Amnesty got from: the terrorists and the West without evidence. There is no clean war at all even you have most advanced weapons because the terrorists live with their families and their families support them, give them habours, feed them....They are all terrorist supporters and sponsors just like Turkey government.

Airstrikes can hit military targets, or they can be launched into markets, hospitals and residential areas. Airstrikes can use "dumb" bombs and/or cluster bombs with a very high risk of civilian casualties, or they can use precise laser guided technology with a very low risk of civilian casualties. If you were living as a non-combatant in Syria, which approach would you prefer the world powers use on your homeland?

Putin is continuing to paint himself into a corner of his own making. The math is seriously against him. 1) 80% of the Islamic world are Sunnis. Putin has sided with Shia. 2) Assad has around 15% support from the Syrian people. Even the most brutal and repressive dictator needs around 30-35% to survive. Idi Amin is a good example. 3) Russia has a very two-dimensional oil-based economy. Oil prices are way down but if sanctions against Iran are lifted, Iran will further lower prices by pumping as much oil as they can to make up for lost time. 4) Once again when we see Russian or Russian-trained forces in action, they are of poor quality and end up killing many more civilians than enemies. Chechnya is a good example. Putin has touched the Tar Baby and will now find out how impossible it is to get loos.

Only 200? Did someone check they drop almost 2000 bombs every three days??? If it is only 200 then Russians are doing totally unexpectedly excellent job in preventing collateral damage. Totally not like any other Russians we know. Heck, this would mean that the Russians have better record than the US.

lmao...alls fair in love and war...i like what amnesty does...but not this time...someone has so do it....and these bomb attacks from what i heard from a canadian kurdish soldier...was that they have helped win battles without a shot fired...they really help he stated.. so please go away this time amnesty...or get in there yourself..

Its hardto say who is right and who is wrong. It was wrong for us to take down Sadaam Hussein when he was the only one in the middle east with backbone enough to keep Isis, taliban, and boka haram at bay. Even the British Prime Minister gives fault to himself and saying the same thing in his statements. Taking down Assad may be a good thing or bad thing. In this world their are so many hidden agendas with our world leaders. But I do know that they are digging in the middle east in the areas that they bombed, so what are they looking for? And is that their only agenda is finding it, instead of taking down isil, boka haram and the taliban.

This is a job for the UN, not the US, Britain, China, etc. The UN officials receive a paycheck. They have a job structure like every other person. Its time for them to do their job, or elect someone honest to take over. Truthfully they need to have another way of electing UN officials instead of the putting in the corrupt, uncaring, and the no back bone ones that continues to do nothing when this world is in chaos.

Welcome to the real world, where people die in wars and terrorists are killed as effectively as possible. The media needs to get it though their skulls that there is no way to prevent civilian deaths during military actions. Want the civilians to survive? Start promoting the stories of militants and terrorists killed, start covering the use of civilians by islamic militants as shields, start putting the focus and the pressure where it belongs, on the islamists and terrorists responsible for creating the need to engage in military actions in the first place.

Huh??? Are you reading the same article that I am? Looking at the same map?? Russia bombed Syria, not Israel. In fact, Russia and the Israeli's have a pretty good understanding at the moment. Russian war planes strayed into Israeli airspace yesterday without incident (as opposed to what happened in Turkey). Pull your head out of the bible and read something current.

Who said those foreign terrorists and their breeding families should be allowed to set up in Syria full time indefinately. Who do these Zionists think they are anyway ? So bombs away, Russia. The Voice Of America always and ever on the side of Wahabbi terrorism.

just wondering how many innocent civilians were killed by Americans in Iraq and Afghanistan? What did amnesty say when Americans bombed the hospital of Doctors without borders? So far Russia is the only one seriously killing terrorists in Syria. good job!

It is no surprise to me that Russia has killed a lot of civilians with complete indifference. What's even more disappointing is how few IS they have targeted and probably killed. They are deliberately bombing the FSA to preclude a non sectarian replacement for Assad. That's their real agenda, to protect Assad. Meanwhile Turkey is bombing the Kurds. The only ones bombing IS is the US. Instead of Russia publishing photos of convoys of oil tankers headed for turkey and a thousand of them parked at a filling station, why didn't it show before and after pictures of how it destroyed them?

Wait until Russia attacks Israel, with a band of others. While Daniel saw the beginnings of the final wars in the Middle East, other prophets went further and predicted what would happen next. Ezekiel chapters 38 and 39 contain perhaps the most fascinating and frightening prophecy in the entire Bible concerning these future battles. Where Daniel only hinted at the fact that a northern power would attack Israel at the end, Ezekiel was very specific. He names regions that today perfectly correlate to the nation of Russia and its allies in the Middle East and to the north. However, to understand the interpretation of this new prophecy and to see how it fits into the scenario of World War III, we need to look closely at the first seven verses of Ezekiel chapter 38. This particular prophecy holds the key to identifying exactly what nations are represented by an attacking northern power, which amazingly describes Russia’s attack on Israel in the last days.

Russia's only interest here is to help Assad maintain power in Syria. Assad is Russia's ally and Russia doesn't want a pro-Western faction overthrowing Assad, so they are bombing all groups opposed to Assad, including Syrian rebels supported by the West, and preventing civilian casualties is not high on their list. Meanwhile, Assad's regime is a Shiite sect so they have the support of Iran too. Syrian rebels are mostly Sunnis so Saudi Arabia is supporting the rebels but not ISIS. ISIS wants to overthrow everyone & establish the Caliphate so they are another faction. It's a mess.